code showing in lightbox images

[trafford]

hello people, have just created a product/deal, and formatted the text in the title for the product which i haven't done before (always left it the default black) changed it to blue/ bold and now when i open up any of the lightbox images i get this

!!<>!!Nash Holdall/Carryall Combo Deal - Save Over 35 %!! !!<>!!

appearing in the lightbox description at the bottom when i view the images, is there any way i can stop it doing that apart from not formatting the text in the product title?

thank you

dave

[Rich Brady]

Dave do you have a URL? How did you format the text?

[trafford]

i've not published it yet but all i did was create an offer in product details and then in the short description field i highlighted the text and changed it to blue and bold with the formatting tools on the toolbar.

if it just leave it black as it normally would be it's fine but if i change it and then view the pictures in lightbox, when the short description is included in the preview it has that code showing as i posted above.

[Rich Brady]

It's the the way you have changed the colour of your text that's causing the issue.

You need to be changing the colour in your CSS. Do you know how to do that?

[trafford]

i have no idea lol . . . . .

doesn't that seem a bit poor that you can't change it with the text editor? i think it's barking

[Rich Brady]

You can, but the text editor uses !!<<>>!! tags to make the change and tht is having and effect on the, none standard, lightbox code.

Doing it this way will also mean that your layouts will look different from page to page, no standardisation.

I'm assuming your changing the colour to make the product/title catch the eye?

[trafford]

yes i just thought it might be an idea to break the text up a bit to make the offers stand out from regular products when they are featured on the same page. i've copied certain products an offers into more than one department for extra exposure, i sippose the other way would be to highlight some text withing the long description instead.

the tags that were visible in lightbox weren't the end of the world, they just looked odd/ out of place to me. don't know if it would put anyone off as such but it just doesn't look right.

[Rich Brady]

Personally, I would leave all the product titles the same for continiuity.

You could create a new variable if you wanted? Position it to sit beneath the title, set it to only show if you have entered something in the text field?

What do you think to that?

[trafford]

depends how complicated you're going to make it lol . . . . . .

do you mean a variable to give me an option to have the title a different colour? i appreciate what you're saying about continuity, that's the effect i'm trying to keep to. although there is a separate department for special offers it's nice to have them in other relevant departments too so it was just to make them stand out a little to draw attention to them.

[Rich Brady]

I was thinking a variable to insert another line of text, but if you wanted it to change the colour, we could do that?

[trafford]

oh i see . . . . where would the other line of text appear?

do you mean like how you have the option for a subtitle in ebay listings?

[Rich Brady]

It could go where ever you want really, but I was thinking just beneath your title?

[trafford]

yes that sounds like a plan, how do i go about that then?

[Rich Brady]

Okay you need to create a new variable:

Design | Library | Variables

[trafford]

ok i've called it subtitle variable